Mr. Truman knew exactly how many people hated him.
But he wasn't afraid.
It was an inevitable process and outcome.
Every evolution of the Federal Government's social system had been accompanied by enormous hatred! Such changes inevitably harmed the vested-interest groups within the Federal system.
The current Education Reform, in reality, did not count as reform at all.
Elite education remained concentrated in Private Schools, while students in public schools continued to do nothing but eat, drink, and have fun.
The education system had been reformed, but had it really been reformed? The masses still had no access to a real education. The so-called "talent" was nothing more than a tool for working more effectively for the upper-middle class! Social security reform was an even greater headache. The current policies seemed to have solved some problems, but they also had enormous drawbacks.
Once the power of capital overwhelmed political power, the capitalists' greed would turn reform into a "carnival."
No one knew how long those restrictive policies targeting capital and capitalists could actually be enforced.
Sometimes, Mr. Truman was afraid as well. He feared that in the future, those capitalists might do more than simply overturn the current policies—they might make everything even worse! He had already placed himself in opposition to the vast majority of capitalists. The "some people" he and Lin Qi had mentioned were not merely "some" in the ordinary sense.
Mr. Truman smiled and took another drag of his cigarette. "We can't refuse to do anything just because we're afraid. Someone has to do something."
"That's how history works. It always takes us a long time to determine whether what people in the past did was right or wrong."
"Theories need experiments to prove them, and so does history!"
At that moment, Mr. Truman seemed to